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Remove flare and unwanted backlighting from night sky. How-to and critique request
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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 648222" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>If you are shooting into the lights, the light will bounce around inside your lens. Sometimes the design of a lens will play into whether there is more or less flare due to the number of elements inside (and the overall design of a lens). Try removing the filter for one photo then take a second photo shooting into the same direction (even if you don't have a subject in the same place). <strong>The idea is to compare the images and see if removing the filter makes a difference.</strong> I've found out with some of my lenses that light flare exists no matter whether there is a filter on the lens or not. I just experienced the same thing yesterday when shooting into the sun during the day. Removing the filter didn't reduce the flare.</p><p></p><p>The flare spots don't bother me. As I just mentioned, there are times when they do happen. BUT if you remove the lights from the images, then the flare spots will look unnatural if you don't remove them, too. Can you upload the 2nd photo in NEF to a Dropbox account and let some of us play around with it? We might be able to show you some options on how the photos would look if removing the lights and spots. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes what I've experienced is the larger the aperture that is used, the larger the flare spots tend to be. Since your ISO is already high, and also because you really do need a high shutter speed, your aperture will be larger. I wouldn't change the settings to compensate. Either remove the flares or leave them alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 648222, member: 13196"] If you are shooting into the lights, the light will bounce around inside your lens. Sometimes the design of a lens will play into whether there is more or less flare due to the number of elements inside (and the overall design of a lens). Try removing the filter for one photo then take a second photo shooting into the same direction (even if you don't have a subject in the same place). [B]The idea is to compare the images and see if removing the filter makes a difference.[/B] I've found out with some of my lenses that light flare exists no matter whether there is a filter on the lens or not. I just experienced the same thing yesterday when shooting into the sun during the day. Removing the filter didn't reduce the flare. The flare spots don't bother me. As I just mentioned, there are times when they do happen. BUT if you remove the lights from the images, then the flare spots will look unnatural if you don't remove them, too. Can you upload the 2nd photo in NEF to a Dropbox account and let some of us play around with it? We might be able to show you some options on how the photos would look if removing the lights and spots. Sometimes what I've experienced is the larger the aperture that is used, the larger the flare spots tend to be. Since your ISO is already high, and also because you really do need a high shutter speed, your aperture will be larger. I wouldn't change the settings to compensate. Either remove the flares or leave them alone. [/QUOTE]
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